Jack, Could you please take off your lampshade hat and quit doing the Chicken Dance around the pool, you almost knocked poor Mad into the deep end on your last go around. You are back on duty at the door and no stopping for cheesecake on the way !!

We debated long and hard about what to bring to your party, but after reading what everyone has been eating and drinking, we decided that we'd better bring the Alka Seltzer!!! Let's \'Dance The Night Away\' .

We have known you and loved you since before GameBoomers even got started.

You're our MacDee, the one we thought of whenever we were also putting in our 12 hour summer days on yard work (in our Plant Nursery), wondering who besides us, in their right mind, would ever decide to mow lawns for a living! And wondering if you were also, like us, busy praying for SNOW!!! We know first hand how hard you must have worked all these years to be able to do all the work that you've done for GameBoomers, in addition to that kind of backbreaking 'real job'.

You're our MacDee, the one who said she would NEVER give up her beloved MAC for a PC. And as a result of all your praise for them, we wondered what we were missing, and so now we have an old MAC sitting in our computer room .....which we still haven't figured out how to use! ( Help, MAC expert!!

But you're also the one who, once she finally got up her courage, and made up her mind that her life was going in a different direction, bought a PC ..... and now moderates 3 boards helping other gamers who use PCs (as well as MACs)!!!

Remember that about yourself.....that courage and inner strength that you have. And get like another friend of ours did (who is now 78 years old), when she said "How DARE that Cancer think it can attack me!!!"

They say that God never changes anything, never closes one door, without opening another one.....a better one.

Remember that "what the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls a Butterfly".

And you're our beautiful Monarch Butterfly, the one we think of whenever they fly en masse over our house on their yearly migration.

Know that we need you. And that you have been, and will continue to be, in our prayers.

<img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/woozy.gif" /> Hey you guys, The sun may be going down on your side of the hills, but on our side it is time to start the Bar-B-que, and set out the afternoon snacks and soft drinks. I happen to like the Aussie way of it and there are Shrimp on the Bar-b at my house.BTW, check the calendar! It finally says it's Deedle's Day! Thanks to Singer.Joyce

Well I'm back! I spent the day making homemade tamales for everyone! I KNEW this would be big since Dee is sooo loved! So I made ALOT of them! You have your choice, pork, beef, mild, hot and super hot! If you go for the super hot, please keep a margarita or daquiri close at hand! There's enough for everyone so dig in! Dee gets first dibs!!!

Dee, I don't know what to say. You go away for a couple of days and all hell breaks loose! Just think of yourself as Gotham post 9-11--pick yourself up, dust yourself and keep fighting!!! You can do it, lady. You're not gonna let ol' Indy down, are ya? My mother had cancer, but she's tough, as you are. I've got every bit of faith that you're gonna survive all this. I beg of you to come back soon to these boards. It wouldn't be the same without you!!!!!

I'm sorry that I'm so late for your party, but I got hung up in the weekend traffic. I just wanted to stop by and wish you a "Happy Deedle's Day" and to let you know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. Hang in there and always remember that we are all behind you.

Hey Mad, it has been 20 minutes! Are you where I think your are? Reading in the library? Too many of those luscious drinks and all that urp, lovely, rich food? Or did you fall in the pool?Joyce <img border="0" alt="[kiss]" title="" src="graemlins/kiss.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[kiss]" title="" src="graemlins/kiss.gif" />